American Revolution Quiz

What was the main reason for Britain's large national debt?

• Taxes on imported goods

• Defending the Colonies in the French and Indian War

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• Settlement of western lands

What did Britain do to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains?

• Enforced tax laws

• Closed the Boston Harbor

• Passed the Quartering Act

• Implemented the Proclamation Line of 1763

What did the colonists see as a violation of their civil liberties?

• Boycotting British goods

• Taxation without representation

• Passing economic policies

• Formation of the Sons of Liberty

Who led the Sons of Liberty?

• Crispus Attucks

• Thomas Paine

• Samuel Adams

• King George III

What was the purpose of the Quartering Act?

• To house British soldiers in colonists' homes

• To close the Boston Harbor

• To enforce tax laws

• To dump British tea into the Boston Harbor

What event in 1770 resulted in the death of Crispus Attucks?

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Boston Massacre

• The French and Indian War

What was the purpose of the Boston Tea Party?

• To close the Boston Harbor

• To declare Independence

• To enforce tax laws

• To protest taxation without representation

How did Parliament respond to the Boston Tea Party?

• By passing the Quartering Act

• By closing the Boston Harbor

• By passing the Intolerable Acts

• By implementing the Proclamation Line of 1763

Who wrote Common Sense urging colonists to declare Independence?

• King George III

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Paine

• Crispus Attucks

What was an immediate effect of the Stamp Act?

• British soldiers were sent to guard the Appalachian Mountains

• the Sons of Liberty boycotted British goods

• the Colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

• Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence